This course is intended for students who wish to pursue a research study involving a specific topic area covered by the program. The student will achieve mastery of a focused topic area during this project. The intention of the project is to conduct research in a field germane to MBiotech with the goal of the student being a lead author on a paper submitted to a peer reviewed journal. The project can be team based, but each student must have a defined area of responsibility. The topic can be in the digital health technologies or biopharmaceutical stream in the Master of Biotechnology program.

As a research project, it is expected that the student will take a lead role in the data collection, data analysis, and paper writing. The project will culminate with a paper that is submitted to the instructor and a paper that meets the standards of a peer reviewed publication. In addition, there will be a final presentation to the program which must include at least one additional faculty member other than the supervisor for this project.